Exeter

Corporate Executives

Directors

• Yale Simpson - Executive Chairman
• Bryce Roxburgh - President
• Louis Montpellier - Director
• Robert Reynolds - Director
• Julian Bavin - Director
• Douglas Scheving - Director
• John Simmons - Director

Management & Operations

• Bryce Roxburgh - Chief Executive Officer
• Cecil Bond - Chief Financial Officer
• Louis Montpellier - Vice President - Corporate Development and Legal Counsel
• Gonzalo Damond - Commercial Manager
• Patrick Esnouf - Advisor to the Board
• Matthew Williams - Exploration Manager
• Jerry Perkins - VP Development & Operations
• Glen Van Kerkvoort - Chief Geologist
• Justin Tolman - Caspiche Project Manager
• Rob Grey - Vice President Corporate Communications

• Yale Simpson

  

  Yale Simpson is the Executive Chairman of Exeter and a professional geologist. He has a Bachelor of Applied Science (Geological Engineering) from the University of British Columbia, Canada. Yale has more than 30 years experience as a senior geologist, exploration manager and CEO of companies involved in precious metals projects in Australia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Argentina. Those companies included Pennzoil Company, Chevron Exploration, Australmin Holdings, Black Swan Gold Mines Ltd. and Argosy Minerals Inc. Importantly, he and his exploration teams are credited with the exploration and development of several gold mines. His particular expertise is in strategic resource planning and corporate communications. Yale is currently chairman of Exeter Resource Corp. and a director of Diamonds North Resources Ltd., Dynasty Metals and Mining Inc. and Rugby Mining Limited.

• Bryce Roxburgh

  

  Bryce Roxburgh graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in geology and geophysics from Sydney University in 1971 and has 30 years experience in the exploration and mining industry including successfully negotiating numerous joint venture agreements. Between 1971 and 1989, he worked for international mining groups, Amoco Minerals Australia Company and Cyprus Mines Corporation, where as Regional Manager for Eastern Australia & South East Asia he was responsible for the exploration teams which discovered the Selwyn, Red Dome and Junction Reef ore-bodies. Between 1989 and 2000, he was Exploration Manager for Arimco N.L. and Climax Mining Limited in East Australia, South East Asia and South America where he was responsible for the teams which discovered the Dinkidi ore-body in the Philippines, and the Don Sixto gold deposit in Argentina. From July, 2000 to January 2004, he worked as an independent consultant until becoming CEO for Exeter where he has worked until now.

• Louis G. Montpellier

  

  Louis Montpellier has been practising law in Vancouver, British Columbia since 1981 and since 1983 has worked exclusively in the capital markets as counsel to emerging issuers and listed public companies engaged in mineral exploration and mining. During that period, Mr. Montpellier has assisted a wide range of businesses in the entire spectrum of corporate finance activities, from accessing seed capital for private companies through to IPO's and subsequent public and private financings. Mr. Montpellier has worked extensively in the field of mergers and acquisitions, hostile and friendly take-over bids, proxy contests, corporate reorganizations and arrangements. Mr. Montpellier also has experience in debt and project financing, acting both for lenders and borrowers, with a particular emphasis on the financing of mineral projects.

• Robert G Reynolds

  

  A Chartered Accountant has been involved in exploration and resource development companies for 28 years. He has held various positions, including that of Executive Director of Delta Gold Ltd. from 1987 to 1996, responsible for corporate planning, finance and administration. He also participated in the development of the Granny Smith and Kanowna Belle mines in Western Australia, and the Hartley Platinum Mine in Zimbabwe. Currently Robert is the Chairman of successful Australian gold explorer, Avoca Resources Ltd.

• Julian Bavin

  

  Julian Bavin is an independent director. He has 30 years of technical, operational and commercial experience in mineral exploration gained from work in a wide range of commodities, jurisdictions and cultures most of which was spent with the Rio Tinto Group in South America, Australia, Indonesia and Europe. From 2001 to 2009 he was responsible for the Rio Tinto exploration in South America and the teams which identified the potential in a range of projects now in various stages of feasibility including the PRC potash and Altar copper/gold projects in Argentina, the Mina Justa, Constancia and La Granja copper projects in Peru, and the Amargosa bauxite project in Brazil.

• Douglas Scheving

  

  Douglas Scheving graduated with Diplomas of Technology in Mining and Extractive Metallurgy from the British Columbia Institute of Technology in 1972 and has 20 years experience as a mill superintendent and 10 years experience in the administration of public mining exploration companies. He has worked for Falconbridge at their Wesfrob iron copper mine and also at their Salmita Gold Mine in the Northwest Territories. He has also worked as mill superintendent at Mosquito Creek Gold Mines and the Sumac Ventures heap leach gold operation. Mr. Scheving was contractor and General Manager for the British Columbia Ministry of Environment for three years at a cyanide remediation and detoxification project near Grand Forks B.C. In 1993 Mr. Scheving became involved with public mining exploration companies and has provided administration services to Exeter Resource Corporation (then Golden Glacier Resources Inc.) and Golden Dynasty Resources Limited starting in 1996.

• John Simmons

  

  John is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and has been involved in public practice in various capacities for over 40 years, and continues to manage an accounting practice in downtown Sydney. His extensive experience includes advising on taxation and strategic planning matters as well as financial management and general business advisory. He has previously served as a director of a number of public companies which have been taken over or merged with other companies including Eastern Australia Airlines Limited (now part of Qantas) and Salamander Gold Mines NL which was taken over by Climax Mining Limited (now part of Oceana Gold Corp.). He maintains an active involvement in the mining industry through association with an operating mining company in Queensland, Australia.

• Cecil Bond

  

  A chartered accountant with 20 years experience. He spent 7 years working for 2 major international accounting firms in South Africa and Canada and 5 years in private business in South Africa. His recent experience has been in the junior mining industry where he has spent the last 8 years as the chief financial officer of public companies.

• Gonzalo Damond

  Gonzalo Damond is an Industrial/ Electronic/ Civil Engineer and graduated with specializations in commercial and logistic areas from Mariscal Sucre University and has 12 years experience in operational and management positions within significant multinational companies. He has been responsible for the design, organization and commissioning of large distribution centers. He has substantial experience in purchase management - especially large volume transactions and has negotiated supply contracts with major wholesale companies. Within the operations field he has managed railway logistics between Argentina and Brazil as well as intermodal operations for Chilean ports. In carrying out these functions Gonzalo gained substantial experience in establishing constructive relationships with communities, clients, trade unions and Government authorities.

• Patrick Esnouf

  

  Patrick Esnouf is Advisor to the Board. He was formerly with the Anglo group of companies, has held various positions including that of CEO of Anglo's substantial Chilean copper operations and Chairman of Anglo South America. He also managed Anglo business units in Brazil, Peru, Venezuela and Argentina. When living in Argentina he was involved in the early development of the Cerro Vanguardia gold/silver mine in Santa Cruz Province. Currently Patrick, who has lived in South America for the last 20 years, is Chairman of TSX and ASX listed Andean Resources which owns the prospective Cerro Negro Gold Project in Argentina, is a director of Volcan, a major Peruvian zinc producer, and is director and President of TSX listed South American Gold and Copper which is Chilean focused.

• Matthew Williams

  

  Matthew Williams graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Applied Geology from the Queensland Institute of Technology in 1987, and has more than 12 years experience in the exploration and mining industries with Mount Isa Mines. Areas of expertise include the geological appraisal of advanced projects, particularly at the pre-feasibility and feasibility levels, of base metal and gold mining projects in Australia and the Dominican Republic. Major projects include Tom's Gully Gold Mine, N.T., McArthur River Lead-Zinc-Silver Mine, N.T., Mount Isa Copper Mine, Pueblo Viejo Gold Mine in the Dominican Republic, and the proposed Mount Isa Open Cut.

  His experience has also included grass roots (or greenfield) exploration and project appraisals on gold and base metal projects in W.A., N.T. - Australia, Mexico, Nevada, USA, Panama and the Dominican Republic.Matthew brings a wealth of computing experience with him to Exeter, which includes extensive resource estimation knowledge.

• Jerry Perkins

  

  Jerry has a chemical engineering background and over 35 years experience in the mining and metallurgical industry in technical, operational and corporate management positions in NSW, Queensland, Tasmania and the Northern Territory of Australia as well as South Africa, UK and Papua New Guinea. He has specialised in mineral project development programs and feasibility studies, and in market development roles throughout Australasia and in North and South America, Europe, Southern Africa, China, Japan, Indonesia and other SE Asian countries. Jerry's expertise includes mine production and commissioning; test work and R&D programs; engineering and process design, operations management, project development and optimization. It also includes environmental design and management, OH & S as well as stakeholder, community, government and public relations. Jerry has worked on many major mining projects and his commodity experience includes gold, PGMs, copper, lead-zinc, nickel-cobalt, tin, uranium, vanadium, coal, gemstones and various industrial minerals.

• Glen Van Kerkvoort

  

  Glen Van Kerkvoort graduated with 1st class Honours from the CODES Special Research Centre at the University of Tasmania in 1995. He has been exploring in South America for over 15 years and during that time has worked extensively on various world class deposits. He discovered the Don Sixto epithermal vein deposit in 1996 during a regional exploration program which covered an area of 60,000 square kilometers in Argentina's Mendoza province. In the late 1990's he worked as a senior geologist with Barrick on a number of projects including the massive Pascua-Lama high sulphidation gold-silver deposit (22.5 million ounces of gold and 718 million ounces of silver). Glen later managed regional exploration for Brancote at their 3 million ounce gold low sulphidation vein deposit at Esquel. When Meridian Gold took over Brancote in 2002 he moved to the position of exploration manager for the newly registered company of Patagonia Gold Plc and set up exploration centres in both Argentina and Chile. Glen commenced with Exeter in 2005. He has been intimately involved in Exeter's recent discoveries at both Caspiche in Chile and Cerro Moro in Argentina. As the Chief Geologist his responsibilities include providing geological and technical support on Exeter's projects, guiding regional exploration, and finding new opportunities in order to ensure the companies continued growth.

• Justin Tolman

  

  Justin Tolman graduated with 1st class Honours in Applied Science from James Cook University in 1998 and holds an MBA from La Trobe University. He was awarded the Exploration Industry Prize for Geological Mapping for his thesis. Justin has 10 years experience working in exploration, mine geology, project management and project generation in a wide range of mineralisation styles and environments. Mining experience includes open cut and underground mine geology at Charters Towers and Mount Isa, culminating in a resource modelling role for the Isa Open cut pre-feasibility and feasibility studies. Regional exploration work includes several years leading teams in the remote Tanami Desert and SE Australia, where as the JV project manager Justin was part of the team that discovered the McPhillamy’s gold deposit in NSW, Australia. Justin commenced with Exeter in May 2008 as the Principal Geologist - Argentina and Chile and is currently responsible for management of the Caspiche gold-copper Project. He is a member of the AusIMM and the SEG.

• Rob Grey

  

  Rob Grey is Vice President – Corporate Communications for Exeter. He is a Business College graduate who began his career with Telus Mobility in Corporate Sales. In a four year period he achieved “top of sales” in a very competitive field. Over a ten year period Rob worked as an equity sales assistant before advancing into investor communications for Exeter. In 2007 he was appointed Vice President – Communications for Exeter, a role in which he works directly with senior management in developing and managing investor outreach programs at institutional and retail levels.